Baldur's Gate Arcane Spell Guide Level 7
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- Опубліковано 28 січ 2019
- Hi this is the 7th of 10 videos going over every arcane spell in the baldur's gate series.
I play the enhanced edition with SCS on insane difficulty and no saves no reloads so this video is focused on that, but most of what I say applies to core rules unmodded as well.
If you are curious about a particular spell I have them ordered here by tier alphabetically.
S Tier spells
Mass Invisibility 1:52
Mordekainen's Sword 4:14
Project Image 6:45
Ruby Ray of Reversal 10:31
Spell Sequencer 13:00
A Tier Spells
Limited Wish 14:53
Spell Turning 18:39
B Tier Spells
Delayed Blast Fireball 20:41
Finger of Death 21:57
Khelbans Warding Whip 24:00
Powerword Stun 25:32
Prismatic Spray 27:35
Sphere of Chaos 29:50
C tier Spells
Cacofiend 32:29
Control Undead 34:56
Mantle 36:36
Protection from the Elements 38:58
Summon Djinn 41:25
Summon Efreeti 41:25
Summon Hakeashar 43:22
If you would like to see me play live, my twitch stream can be found here / davaeorn I stream daily starting at 10 am EST.
Let me know what you think in the comments, God bless!
"Can't say enough good things about it."
same
@@Davaeornlol “The world is your oyster, boys!”
As someone who is OBSESSED with BG1, BG2 SoA, and ToB, these arcane and divine spell series breakdowns are FANTASTIC. Love the channel 👍
Glad you're enjoying it friend! Thanks for watching and commenting!
This guy is a f***king legend
RE: limited wish protection from undead. Use Edwin to cast for vampires, which Vicky then turns, five of the best summons in the game
Nice! Thanks for watching and commenting friend.
Oh shit, what a weird idea! You might just be a genius. I suppose if you make sure to have protection from negative energy you can do this without being afraid of level drain from a lucky hit while turning them, but other than that I don't see any downsides. Gonna try it next time I get high enough level to turn vampires.
God bless these guides, my dude. Absolutely loving the games after you made the magic system easier to understand.
Thanks for watching friend I'm glad you enjoy them God bless you too!
Yes Cthulhu bless you the one true god
These guides are outstanding - thank you! I've been referring to them a lot lately with my current play through.
Your spell and class series get me into bg and DND . God bless you
God bless you too buddy hope you're having a blast with it.
25:15 there are so many spells in this game, I tested K-whip finally and ITS AMAZING! we should rename it Lich-slayer :D i don't need an army of spell-strike on my "that wiard" any more :D this with breach is just that damn good. It's a gift that keep giving :D ans you hammer those bosses down :D
Thanks for the series Dav!
Death spell / death fog kills all summons. They won't kill demons, deva, a planetar, because these are extraplanar gated creatures, not summons.
As for Protection from Evil and demons, it depends on your config, but even knowing that it's pretty random.
Yup, thanks for watching buddy!
Thank you for the guides! I've seen them all and found them really useful! Thx a lot
glad you enjoyed them friend thanks for watching
Thanks yet again for another neat guide.
Regarding the limited Wish option and why "beeing protected from Undead" would summon Vampires:
There's a small detail, addendum, to the low Wisdom option, as it say proetected from Undead RIGHT NOW. Now from the djinees pov he doesn't lie when he sends some Vampires after you, AFTER he proceeded the time to midnight.
I always loved that small detail
There's also the angle that a great way to be protected from undead is to be bitten by a vampire and become undead - no more problems!
12:42 Even without Mods in Core Rules you need Ruby Ray, if i remember every Lich and every Yaga-Sura Mage in ToB will cast Spell Trap.
Still can't say enough good things about this series :)
Thanks for watching and commenting buddy :)
For me, Sphere of Chaos is more of a meme spell than something actually useful. And it can break the game in a funny way :). If you import a high level wizard/sorcerer to BG1 and start the game with them, you can put it 3x in a Chain Contingency and set it to fire at nearest enemy when taking damage. With some luck/reloads it's perfectly capable of killing Sarevok and his gang in the cutscene where they fight with Gorion xD. Sadly, this will have no effect on the plot of the game, and Gorion will die anyway since his death is scripted (even if Sarevok is dead, he still somehow manages to deliver the killing blow).
It's unironically disintegrated so many people in the past that I worry for the lives of tall people in my party. Sounds amusing though, thanks for commenting friend!
Web/ haste/ poly self spider, my favorite use of spell sequencer.
Very nice, Dav!
Ayy thx for watching my dude!
Thanks for these videos bud they’re great
Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
U are gr8. Love this series
Quick side note on Project Image: originally it should be able to cast YOUR spellbook, aka you should be able to cast spells through this image, but obviously it should use up your spellbook, and not just double your spells, effectively. Basically a fix would be somehow adjusting the image's book to overwrite yours at the end somehow, then it would be an ok spell. Still would be powerful, but heck, illusion spells deserve some love after they totally dismissed the lvl 4 phantasmal killer from the game. :-(
Yeah I'm not really sure why they made the image have its own set of spells. It's absurd really.
as i re-watch this from combat experience my favorite combo is Chaos WITH cloud kill just make the enemy silly and watch them run around in the smoke like crazy ants:D and if thy manage to come out well focus fire :D Chaos with Vekna robe is an instat win in even an ambush its that good and i use it on envoker and/or necro :D (having problems with the Clory mages because you casst on the open :D chaos gass them :D it so damn fun that the fireballs can pup out :D) also this is a relation to another video Cloud kil is ALSO envocation ....so ....enchanter is a terrible class :D
you should change your channel name to BGWiki lol. Your knowledge about the game is insane. I saved all your playlists and use them as references :)
spell sequencer lends a new lease of life to multiple lvl 3-4 spells
triple fireball, flame arrow, confusion... you name it
Slowly but surely. Still loving these. I have a request though, maybe after you are done with the arcane spell guides can you make a video talking a little about your sorcerer spell picks for each level? Some levels are pretty easy but there is so many good spells on some tiers that is hard to narrow it down to 5.
It's actually a video I want to make! Thanks for watching!
I'm playing a sorcerer and I have just been picking from the higher tier spells from these spell guides. Sleep has been a absolute killer spell at lower levels, but my mage is scripted and keeps casting the spell on groups of high level enemies (I'm over halfway through BG1) so its doing nothing which is really annoying. Do you know of any mods that script better spell choices? Or is it just time to stop playing scripted and be less lazy haha.
I think at low wisdom you actually use the phrase "I want to be protected from the undead right now", and the genie obliges by giving your friends the opportunity to protect you from the undead right now. There are some differences in the exact words you use at different levels of wisdom, and it plays a bit with the old monkey's paw trope of being really careful how you phrase your wishes, since you could grant someone's wish word for word in a nasty way which was not what they actually wanted. That's impossible to recreate in any real way within the system of these games, so we just have to suspend our disbelief and agree that a character with high wisdom can phrase their wish in such a way that the genie has to give them what they actually want, but a character with low wisdom will basically tell the genie "I want to be the bee's knees!" or something like that and let the genie interpret that as it will.
"I want to be protected from the undead right now" means that the Genie interprets you saying that you want to be protected right now, but not at a later time like say midnight. That's why the time is set to midnight, to imply that we've fast forward from "now" until "later" when you no longer want to be protected from the undead.
Limited wish: Start a combat with a mage past midnight and run away. Ask for protection from undead with a low wisdom character. The time fast forwards 24 hours and after you've dealt with the vampires the mage has lost all of his buffs other than stoneskin. It's almost like you have a spell to turn off SCS prebuffing.
I can't say enough good things about this video;)
I can just imagine if Beamdog let the source codes free how amazing BG could be with even total conversion mods and make new campaigns and improve all spells across the board
More information from my research on the wiki. Mordenkainen’s sword has a base attacks per round of ONE. Regular haste is all you need to double attacks per round if you’re buffing up your swords. Now, Skelton warriors have an APR of 2. Improved haste will increase APR to 4. Might be worth it, might not. Your call. I’d buff them up with improved haste if you’re sending them into a deep strike. I typically use farsight with my sorcerer for deep strikes like the lair of the eyeless. Wizard eye triggers agro.
Sphere of Chaos ignores magic resistance in BG2 classic. If it does in EE with SCS, it will be must-have in my sorcerer’s spell book. 🙂
Interesting idea
Hi! Wanted to say thanks, the guide is really nice, just wanted to add: no info on combos? for example spell trap-> proyect image -> finger of death to original you-> power word kill to original you = no spells spent.
or proyect image -> spell inmunity divination and so forth
Spell immunity div in my game was nerfed, good point I should bring it up though for people with different versions. As for the PWK combo I was going to save that for PWK, same with the Wish/limited wish combos (make everyone intoxicated/fatigued etc can be taken care of via limited wish, but it incurs a massive penalty to enemies). Thanks for watching and commenting!
17:36 - Why does "I want to be protected from the undead" at low wisdom summon a bunch of vampires under the cover of darkness?
Why naturally, it's so that you can be turned into a vampire! No more problems with the undead, when you become one of them!
Complete protection, never runs out!
Easy! ;)
GENIUS
@@Davaeornlol Depends on whether or not the recipient of The Wish is willing to pay the price of admission!
I tried using the Hakeshar against the vigilant eyes in Abazigal's lair. It worked well at tanking those spells, until they summoned an ettercap and left the thing with half its health after coming in to save it.
41:57 Efreeti is my favorite spell in he game for offense, my simulacrum army spam this and thy are perfect tanks vs EVEN Planatars (The Winged) they can tank anything, if mass army they cast fireballs, if 1 enemy they are damage and meet tanks. Why not Morteky sword? Its slow so damn slow and dos not do fireball :D
@davaeorn I actually found Power Word Stun pretty irritating recently when facing enemy demons in Watcher's Keep on SCS. They kept hitting my Mages with it, and since Spell Turning etc wasn't part of my typical defenses routine, I kept getting stunned. I got around it by using Spell Immunity: Conjuration but looking back I wonder if Spell Turning might have been a good option as well. Not sure how often they spam PWS. My normal routine was to have Spell Protection: Abjuration up to avoid dispels and PWS was one of the few scenarios where I went outside of my norm with that and used a different defense instead.
It's definitely more obnoxious to be used against you, same with chromatic orb, we've been killed by it many times in bg1.
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Thank you for the guides !!!
How does Cacofiend against something like a dragon? Like summong it infront of Firkraag and let the fiend do the work or does it get clobbered?
90% of boss enemies are scripted to insta death spell which kills all summons but planetars and devas.
*Clack* Nice!
#1 Mordekainen's
7 blows, feelsbad it seems out of place, the other levels add some spicy shit, maybe project image is the most fun spell here but it isn't really.
I like to do 2 webs with minor sequencer and 3 spider spawns from spell sequencer and just let 3 sword spiders go to town.. then summon a Wyvern for laughs..
Yeah web and spiders are like peas and carrots to be sure
I am just getting back into BG and as someone who played hardcore (ultima online basically, diablo 3, path of exile amazed that its possible to play hardcore in this game. I wouldn't make it to level 4. Playing solo, usually, insane. Haven't figured out how to get modded yet.
It's a lot of fun, I'd definitely recommend it, thanks for commenting!
13:36 "three of them" (holds up 4 fingers) xDDDDD
math is hard
@15:50 you say that the one time wishes are one per caster, but I believe it's one per party (wiki says one per save game).
Depends on version I might have forgotten to say that. Certain versions of the game would let you limited wish via scroll and use the limited wishes once per day again for each caster. Thanks for watching!
If you use fireball with a level 16 dragon disciple. While having both protect fire and fire sheild won't you get a pretty good heal? With the dragon disciples passive fire resistance mind you. But I would use base fireball for this.
The resist sadly reduces the damage you take which is then calculated for the heal, so instead of taking a 100 fireball and healing for 100, you're healed for a % of it, which is usually low, but its definitely helps for sure.
@@Davaeornlol well there went that theory. Still learning or attempting to learn the game. With that being said you saved me a dragon disciple character.
Wondering as you play hardcore on high difficulty, what is your average death day, average play time of dying, and how long does it take you to get back to that point?
It's RNG, sometimes we've died 3 times in one day and are stuck in BG1, other times we go almost a week without a death and are in the middle of ToB. Thanks for watching!
Check him out on Twitch, he streams it all for ~8 hours a day. You can even see clips of all his deaths, some of which are pretty entertaining :D
Godtier guides lmao
Thanks for watching and commenting buddy!
Would you take sequencers and trigger on a Sorcerer?
Trigger and chain contin always, sequencer usually, contingency almost never. Minor sequencer never.
Hey man, what do you think of Seven Eyes? I've got it in my version of scs. It seems to be quite nice.
It's a pretty interesting but still pretty useless spell tbh lol
Haha respect dude. It's saved me once or twice, but I just wish the duration was longer (like 8 hours).
I used summon efreet on wildmage troug nagals dveomer. When i was able to cast lvl 5 spells=) he helps me in under graveyard. So even rhey shit u can abuse them as wildmage. I know they are unstable so nit for your difficulty but they are fun to play.
I've done one wild mage and he got to the end of SoA so its doable! Very fun to play! Thanks for commenting!
Does spell turning do anything to a healing spell?
Nope they got rid of a lot of D&D inconveniences in bg2, like MR blocking healing spells or even potions. I ended up using 3 on viconia in bg1 before I realized what was actually happening lol. Sorry I didn't respond to your comment I'm only just now going down the list. At the time youtubes algorithm wasn't working properly for me so I didn't even see it. Sorry about that. Wherever you are friend I hope you're doing well. God bless!
Huh. I was actually looking to see how you'd rate 'Seven Eyes', which is part of the IWDalification; but it's not under your spells.
demon summoning is not balanced out. i mean out dont get xp for their killing and you don't get xp for killing your summons eiver. i also think summoning from another planes stuff shout be kinda more random from lvl 7-9 with a stronger version of spell making gate wider into local invasion
Yeah for sure, the newest SCS version makes them quite a bit stronger so that's fun to play with. Thanks for watching!
You should do a all C/RP spells playthrough
Do you get XP for killing summoned cacofiends?
Sometimes you do sometimes you don't its weird, sometimes when you kill a planetar you get 22k xp, sometimes nothing. When it comes to killing your OWN summons tho you shouldn't be getting xp.
Plot twist: I just used cernd for the first time today and hes my new favourite, i want you to tell me how much of an idiot i am haha
Nah I don't blame you at all, almost everyone thought he was trash for ages, and many still do.
Cernd is great, he just doesn't have as much content as lots of other NPCs unfortunately. When he does talk he often has funny lines but he isn't quite such a chatterbox like Minsc or Jan.
@@slavemonkey5063 Yeah it depends on who you pair him with sadly for a lot of content in this game you need the right combo
Thanks for the guide, useful stuff. Sorry but I don't think you are an idiot, hopefully you don't mind ;)
Thanks for watching!
33:48 Pretty sure you don't lose reputation for people killed by demons. That's because they count as hostile, and so their kills are not attributed to the party (same reason why you don't get experience for their kills). I sometimes summon demons as a safer form of pickpocketing :)
I have in the past on stream, depends on your version of SCS possibly? Hard to say whether its base game or mod, unfortunately a lot of these videos are from an older version of SCS so some stuff might be out of date :( I may end up redoing the whole series at some point when I get better. Thanks for commenting and watching friend!
Доброго времени суток! Davaeorn
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AYY Thx for watching friend!
1 per month :(
I'm gonna get them up faster I swear! Thanks for watching!
It may so but the quality is top notch.